Practice areas represented range from real estate to domestic and family law to healthcare to franchise law. And the attorneys are as engaged in the community as they are in their profession. Of particular note, group member Lori W. Nelson is chair of the ABA Family Law Section and past-president of the Utah State Bar. All members of the group are involved with organizations that promote both the personal and professional success of women in Utah.

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Jones Waldo is pleased to announce that 11 of its attorneys in five practice areas have been listed in the ChambersUSA 2015 guide to the nation’s leading lawyers. Lucy B. Jenkins, a member of the Jones Waldo Women Lawyers Group, was recognized for her work in Energy an Natural Resources.

“The poker table is the new golf course,” says Ellen Leikind, founder of the corporate skill-building group Poker Prima Divas, who recently held a Ladies’ Poker Night event for women attorneys and their female clients at a large New York City firm. According to a Law 360 article, the players “learned how to leverage their chips for information and assess how other players’ personalities affected their style of play -- and, perhaps more importantly, attorneys got a chance to interact with potential clients in ways that laid the groundwork for future business relationships.”